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Fantastic Planet
(1973)
3.63
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Plot/Story

5.00

Characters

4.00

Acting

2.00

Cinematography

3.00

Production Design

3.00

Sound

5.00

Execution

3.00

Emotional Impact

4.00

Overview: On the planet Ygam, the Draags, extremely technologically and spiritually advanced blue humanoids, consider the tiny Oms, human beings descendants of Terra's inhabitants, as ignorant animals. Those who live in slavery are treated as simple pets and used to entertain Draag children; those who live hidden in the hostile wilderness of the planet are periodically hunted and ruthlessly slaughtered as if they were vermin.

Director: René Laloux

Release Date: 1973-12-01

Genres: Animation Science Fiction


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Fantastic Planet is incredibly ambitious in many ways, but is surprisingly half-hearted in others. Right out of the gate, the visuals are divisive, as individual stills look beautiful, but the actual animation is very choppy and unnatural. If you pause the movie at any time, you'll get see an incredibly alien landscape populated with a litany of grotesque and confusing creatures and plants, that are all strangely compelling. However, as soon as you press Play, the woefully under-animated movements create a big scar over those beautiful stills. Even for 1973, the actual animation is poorly done and it feels like they need three times as many frames as they have in order to fix it. There are even scenes where they don't even bother making character's legs move and instead they just float along the ground. The story of Fantastic Planet is purposefully confusing, but I feel like it takes it a step too far. We experience the film from two different lenses, that of the Draags (the giant blue creatures) and that of the Oms (their name for the humans). Our narrator, Terr, is an Om so we see most things from his point-of-view which leaves us as clueless about the Draags as he is. It's a novel concept, but when reached the ending, I felt like I was missing an entire layer of knowledge that was necessary to understand what was going on. Hearing the Draags teach their children about their planet using alien terms that we have no concept or understanding of was kind of cool, but that's on a micro scale and the ending is very macro. I watched Fantastic Planet with the original French audio and English subtitles and the voice acting is easily the worst part of this film. No one seems to understand what their role as a voice actor is, as no one is putting emotion into their lines and everyone sounds nearly identical. I love the world building that we get (especially considering how short the film is), but nothing feel fully realized; the entire film feels like a rough draft. Everything about this movie needed a more experienced person with an attention to detail working on it. I hate remakes, but Fantastic Planet could be a great candidate for a remaster. Touch up the animation and rerecord the audio with trained, professional voice actors and Fantastic Planet could be a classic. As it is, this film is unique and strangely compelling, but it's missing a real hook and how sloppily it was made leaves a lot to be desired.

By : Greg Mueller | Date : 3 years ago




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